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...refused repatriation and found his way to France, where he worked as a choir director, translator and, eventually, journalist. It was during an interview in 1954 with Roman Catholic Novelist Francois Mauriac that literature took an abrupt turn...
...adept punster, hits his stride when it comes to creating lists. While in "Nawlins," the birthplace of jazz, two "frenchies" recite for Blue some of the great names of Jazz such as Jimbo Verlaine's Rainmakers, Fats Gide with the Baton Rouge Boys, Valery Conga, Booker Cesaire, Cheech Mauriac with the Femmes Fatales and Peanuts Prevert. Or take the roll call of an academic cocktail party where...
...campaign began, antitobacco fervor swept through Mauriac. Gaily colored banners proclaiming IT is POSSIBLE TO STOP SMOKING, EMANCIPATE YOURSELF IN FIVE DAYS began to brighten the dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...
Smoking Skeptics. The crusade is not universally popular in Mauriac. "I have never slept so badly," says Jacqueline Forgereau, a chain smoker who took the pledge. "I manage to swallow half a gallon of mineral water daily, but I can't stop eating. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up." The most fervent denunciations of all have come from some of the town's six tobacconists, whose sales have dropped as much...
Despite the criticism, Mauriac's antismoking crusade seems to have become a permanent fixture. The 143-member nonsmokers association has placed at the town's four entrances blue-and-white signs reading MAURIAC, THE FIRST CITY IN THE WORLD TO HAVE SAID "NO" TO TOBACCO. There are already plans afoot to launch a second antitobacco offensive this summer. Visitors, many of them smokers seeking a cure, are still pouring in and bolstering local businesses?including the tobacco shops...